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How do you make a cpacitor at home?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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-- Make a sandwich of two sheets of foil separated by a slightly larger sheet

of waxed paper. Roll up the sandwich, being careful that the foil sheets never

touch each other. Connect a wire or alligator clip to each foil sheet, and you have

a capacitor between the two wires.

-- Stuff a bottle or jar full of foil. Tape a sheet of foil to the entire outside of the bottle/jar.

Be careful that the inside and outside foils never touch each other. Connect a wire or

alligator clip to the inside foil, and another one to the outside foil, and you have a

capacitor between the two wires.

-- Take two lengths of insulated wire. Twist them together for their entire length,

except for a few inches at one end. Strip the insulation from that end, and you have

a very-small-value capacitor between the stripped ends of wire.

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